Sitting in salah

Sitting is, along with bowing and prostration, an integral part of salah, Islamic prayer, and Islamic tradition documents three distinct sitting or kneeling postures used at different points in the prayer: resting the buttocks on the heels, resting on one heel while the other foot remains raised, and a sideways sitting position used during the final segment of the prayer. During the final sitting the index finger is pointed toward the qibla while the worshipper recites the tashahhud and salawat, with some variation documented between Sunni and Shia practice. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/